> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://guide.garde.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Order guides & ordering locations

> Control what stores can order, at what price, and who's allowed to order.

**Who:** commissary ops — whoever decides what stores may buy and at what price.
**When:** setup, then whenever products or prices change.

## Order Guides — what stores can order

**Commissary → Order Guides** is the catalog you expose to stores. Each order guide item carries the product, its **selling packaging** (separate from how you count it), a **SKU** (uniqueness-checked, shown on POs and invoices), and the **price stores pay**.

* **Pricing, two ways:** a fixed **override price**, or **cost-plus-markup** that moves with your real cost. Pricing lives on the guide item, so the same product can sell at different prices to different locations.
* **Orderability is explicit:** every guide item shows whether it can actually be ordered, with **named blockers** (missing price, missing unit conversion…), and the **Only items with issues** filter pulls every blocked item into one list. If stores report something missing from ordering, check here first.
* Keep pack sizes accurate — stores see the pack (and batches per pack) while ordering. Categories, search, and duplicate detection keep a big guide manageable.
* Click any guide item for its **detail page** — who orders it, how much, order history, and its food-cost trend.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/garde-590480cc/rtyu7WQ0XbwWvnlj/images/screenshots/order-guides.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=rtyu7WQ0XbwWvnlj&q=85&s=3d1185adde33dd809911bb41adddc0e8" alt="An order guide: selling packaging, raw cost, selling price, and override/markup columns" width="1568" height="737" data-path="images/screenshots/order-guides.jpg" />

## Ordering Locations — who can order

**Commissary → Ordering Locations** controls which store locations may order from each commissary location — each with its own order guides, **delivery days**, and an optional **Flat Delivery Fee** added as a line item on delivery orders (pickup orders carry no fee). A new store can't order until it's added here.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/garde-590480cc/rtyu7WQ0XbwWvnlj/images/screenshots/ordering-locations.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=rtyu7WQ0XbwWvnlj&q=85&s=e280ab5bdb2242e740b33e642da0503f" alt="Ordering locations: which stores can order, from which guides, on which days" width="1568" height="737" data-path="images/screenshots/ordering-locations.jpg" />

## Sales Overview, Selling Margins & Product Mix — what's moving

* **Commissary → Sales Overview** — what you billed stores over time.
* **Commissary → Selling Margins** — every guide item ranked by how far the margin it earns sits below your target, with the cause named (fixed price while cost moved, markup below the guide default) and a price simulator that shows the store-side impact before you commit.
* **Commissary → Product Mix** — volume by product across stores: your demand signal for production planning.

<Warning>
  Price changes apply to **new** orders — already-confirmed orders keep the price they were placed at.
</Warning>
